My Hubby Rescued Dinner with Barber Foods! #BarberDads

Per special request from Barber Foods, this is my husband’s very first guest post here at Experimental Mommy! Enjoy!

Help, I need somebody,
Help, not just anybody…

When the Beatles penned these lyrics in 1965, I’m pretty sure they weren’t looking for help around the house. However, when my wife called earlier this week—and essentially said the same thing, her message to me was loud and clear, “You have to go cook dinner.” Although I live in the part of the country known for its excellent cooks: Emeril Lagasse, John Besh, and Paul Prudhomme, yours truly would never make this list. So I had a choice to make, fast food or cook something. Although I believed fast food to be the easier option, I was feeling adventurous and decided I would cook.

Upon opening my freezer, I found that we had 2 boxes of Barber Foods Stuffed Chicken Breasts. Well, here goes nothing, I thought.

Step 1: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Check.

Step 2: Remove chicken breasts from pouch and place on a cooking sheet. Check.

I have to admit, a 3 step approach to a dinner entrée was very appealing, but it was nowhere near as appealing as the taste. The stuffed chicken breasts were delicious (so good in fact, that my 2 very picky daughters asked for seconds). They were very juicy with an excellent taste– a real complement to the creamed potatoes and salad that I made.

Barber Foods defiantly saved dinner that night, and even earned me a little respect in the kitchen. I plan on fixing many more of the over 20 options that Barber has available. Who knows, after a few more meals like this one, maybe I’ll volunteer to handle Thanksgiving dinner (that is, of course, if Barber Foods offers turkey entrees).

GIVEAWAY

One winner will receive a “Rescue Dinner” Prize Pack including a $25 VISA gift card, a Barber Foods free product coupon and DennyMike’s Cue Set including award winning sauces and rubs!

How to Enter:

1. The last time you were struck with dinner boredom, what did you do to spice up your routine?

Additional entries:

1. Blog about this giveaway and link to The Not-So-Blog and Barber Foods (10 extra entries).

2. Follow me (@BridgetteLA) and @BarberFoods on Twitter and Tweet this giveaway. Every time you tweet you get an additional entry! Limited to 10 a day, please. (You must have over 50 Twitter followers to qualify for unlimited entries!)

I am stuck with dinner boredom right now! I usually search for new recipes and try whatever jumps out at me and sounds good. I think the last time I did a french onion chicken strips recipe I found on a blog, it was so good and maybe even better left over (and I am not a fan of leftover chicken!).

We had a large roast that had been marked down, so we cut it into thirds and put it in the freezer- first meal we baked it- tougher than nails. What to do? I poured through recipe books and came up with a beef stroganoff recipe-worth a try. I thawed out a piece of beef, marinated it overnight covered with mayo, then cut the meat in strips and cooked it with mushrooms, onions in a sourcream gravy- poured over baked potato,…DELICIOUS!

I’m not terribly handy in the kitchen but for some reason I had a lot of success with taking some leftover grilled chicken breasts and making a curried chicken salad. Everyone loved it! I’ve discovered that the key to a good chicken salad is some type of texture/crunch. Nuts, celery, green peppers, radishes…whatever you have!

I made seasoning for chicken breast by chopping up sweet peppers, onion, cilantro, and other ingredients in a food processor. I used a tablespoon of the season to coat the chicken and cooked it in the frying pan instead of having plain chicken breast from the oven. I got the recipe from a friend and the seasoning really adds flavor to the chicken, plus the chicken is so moist.

Last time I was stuck with dinner boredom, I gave my husband and daughter each a cookbook and had them pick a recipe or two.. it worked great and they made good choices. Definitely got us away from the “same old same old” routine.
Katharina angelsandmusic[at]gmail[dot]com

Last time we were hit with dinner boredom my hubby and I decided to try and recreate the Lebanese pita’s we get at Neomone, an authentic Mediterranean cafe down the street from us. They weren’t quite as good as theirs but it was a lot of fun mixing things together 🙂 Thanks for the great giveaway

Tried to make something completely off the wall sometimes it would work out and sometimes it wouldn’t. Example i tried incorporating duck sauce into a meal because I wanted to try it and something different. That did not work too well at all.

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Bridgette is the Owner/Editor of Experimental Mommy. A full time Mom of two daughters (ages 5 and 8) and lab technician, Bridgette has been blogging about the latest products for Mom, Baby and Kid since 2008.

In 2009, Bridgette co-founded a consultation service, Double Duty Divas, LLC in order to connect brands and bloggers. Expanding on this business, she also co-owns a blog conference, Reviewer's Retreat, which is geared towards strengthening relationships between bloggers and brands. [Read More …]